(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall discharge the following main duties in the time lapse between two electoral periods:

a) elaborating proposals with regard to the supply of logistics necessary to the conduct of elections, and transmitting them to the Government and to the local public administration authorities, and taking care of the way how these proposals are fulfilled.

b) taking care of the modality of setting the seats for the polling stations and for the electoral bureaux; 

c) taking care of and providing for the achievement in advance of the specific endowment of the polling stations: standardised ballot boxes and polling booths, stamps, ink pads, containers for the transport of ballot papers, and so on; checking the modality of storage between the electoral periods;

d) taking care of the modality of supplying the necessary funds for the achievement at intervals, in advance, of the necessary logistics in the electoral process;

e) elaborating systems of protection of the polling stations, ballot papers, and of the other specific documents and materials during the elections;

f) monitoring and checking out the modality of drawing up and updating of the permanent electoral rolls, and the modality of storage for the registers containing the permanent electoral rolls, as well as the modality of making the notifications stipulated by law, and their operation in time in the electoral rolls;

g) taking care of the modality of drawing up and delivering of voting cards in accordance with the permanent electoral rolls;

h) taking care and controlling the modality of ensuring the agreement between the contents of the permanent electoral rolls that are to be found in the town halls and the model found in the law courts;

i) ensuring within its jurisdiction the integrated implementation of the legal dispositions with reference to the organisation of elections;

j) elaborating and publishing studies and proposals regarding the improvement of the electoral system, and presenting them to the public authorities, political parties, as well as to the interested non-governmental organisations;

k) submitting a report to the Parliament, within 3 months at the most of the close of the elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, the President of Romania, and to the local public administration authorities, or of the end of a national referendum, on the organisation and conduct of the elections, or of the referendum, mentioning the participation in the ballot, its progress, the infringements and drawbacks found, including the ones in legislation, and the result of consultation. The report shall be published in the form of a White Book;

l) elaborating materials and programmes of information and training of the electors on the Romanian electoral system, and on the observance of the electoral deontology, and ensuring their popularisation;

m) elaborating specific programmes for training in electoral matters for the mayors and secretaries of the territorial-administrative units, as well as for the persons that can become members of the electoral bureaux, and organising the conduct of these programmes together with the National Institute of Administration and with the regional subsidiaries; 

n) elaborating programmes and setting integrated rules in keeping with the cast of vote by illiterate or disabled persons, and ensuring their popularisation;

o) elaborating the draft of its own budget, which shall be approved by the law on the state budget;

p) drawing up the list of specialised personnel, certified by the National Statistics Institute, that takes part in the centralisation, processing, and ascertaining of the election results;

q) supporting the establishing of the specific material foundation for the computerised system at the national level, necessary to ascertain the election results;

r) organising bids for the purpose of selecting the computer programmes, which will be exploited by the Central Electoral Bureau for the centralisation of the election results;

s) elaborating and submitting to the Government, for approval, together with the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, the schedule of activities during the electoral period; ş) elaborating and submitting to the Government, for approval, together with the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, the draft decisions for the proper organisation and conduct of the elections;

t) elaborating drafts of statutory instruments for the improvement and upgrading of the Romanian electoral system, and submitting them to the Government for analysis and exercise of legislative initiative;

ţ) submitting to the Government, for approval, together with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, the draft Government decision on the approval of the necessary expenditure for the organisation and conduct of the elections; the decision shall be approved within 5 days at the most of the bringing to public knowledge of the elections day;

u) certifying, for not being changed, by 10 days before the elections date, the computer programmes selected as a result of the bid organised in accordance with the legal provisions in force and making them available to the parties registered in the electoral competition, at their request;

v) keeping a record of the communes, towns, municipalities, and districts of Bucharest Municipality where there are vacancies for the office of mayor, or where the local councils have been dissolved, and submitting proposals to the Government for the setting up of the date for the organisation and conduct of new elections;

x) supporting the organisation and conduct of by-elections.

(2) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall submit to the Parliament, yearly, a report on its activity. (3) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall fulfil any other duties stipulated by law. (4) In fulfilling its duties, the Permanent Electoral Authority shall adopt decisions, resolutions, and rules, which are to be signed by its president and countersigned by its vice presidents. The decisions of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be published in OJ, Part I, and shall be mandatory for all the bodies and authorities with electoral duties.